baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/seattle-elects-socialist-city-council-20907644
With the election of a Socialist candidate to the Seattle City Council (and on top of that, the weirdly and seemingly non-evil response of the guy she beat - his assessment of Seattle's relationship with socialism is, well, refreshing), I was wondering if any of our North American contributors could put this in any more context. Is this a completely isolated occurrence, or are there any echoes of a resistance to the neoliberal hegemony elsewhere in the US (or in Canada - obv the Quebec student protests were impressive)?
With the election of a Socialist candidate to the Seattle City Council (and on top of that, the weirdly and seemingly non-evil response of the guy she beat - his assessment of Seattle's relationship with socialism is, well, refreshing), I was wondering if any of our North American contributors could put this in any more context. Is this a completely isolated occurrence, or are there any echoes of a resistance to the neoliberal hegemony elsewhere in the US (or in Canada - obv the Quebec student protests were impressive)?